Shift4 Payments Inc (FOUR) short interest & short volume · 32.3% of float short
Shift4 Payments Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
FOUR short interest fell 4.2% to 14.0M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (32.3% of float, 6.6 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 52.4% of volume over the last 20 sessions, the 16th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 14.0M
- prior 14.6M
- % of float
- 32.3%
- float 43.3M
- Days to cover
- 6.6
- avg vol 2.1M
- Change vs prior report
- -4.2%
Days to cover is short interest divided by FINRA's average daily volume for the period: how many average days of trading it would take shorts to buy back.
% of float uses the current float for every report (no float was stored with older reports).
Source: FINRA equity short interest (twice monthly) · Settlement Oct 15, 2026
Daily short volume
Share of each day's volume sold short · FINRA Reg SHO
- Latest (Nov 2)
- 29.3%
- 289K of 988K
- 20-day average
- 52.4%
- prior 52.3%
- Percentile vs own history
- 16th
- 233 periods since 2025
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Source: FINRA Reg SHO daily short sale volume · Latest Nov 2, 2026
Short squeeze score (model)
Price since settlement: +5.5%
Model, not a forecast: 40 pts short interest % of float (full at 30%), 25 pts days to cover (full at 10), 15 pts rise in short interest since the prior report (full at +50%), 20 pts price gain since the settlement date (full at +25%). Missing inputs score 0.
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Market-wide: most shorted stocks, biggest changes and unusual short volume · FOUR overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 289,422 | 988,224 | 29.3% |
| 2026-10-30 | 561,029 | 1,036,626 | 54.1% |
| 2026-10-29 | 240,706 | 598,421 | 40.2% |
| 2026-10-28 | 196,691 | 461,430 | 42.6% |
| 2026-10-27 | 298,655 | 713,631 | 41.9% |
| 2026-10-26 | 591,536 | 885,735 | 66.8% |
| 2026-10-23 | 339,336 | 733,720 | 46.3% |
| 2026-10-22 | 333,822 | 760,308 | 43.9% |
| 2026-10-21 | 493,206 | 876,327 | 56.3% |
| 2026-10-20 | 597,186 | 883,745 | 67.6% |
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FOUR short interest FAQ
What is FOUR's short interest?
Shift4 Payments Inc (FOUR) had 14.0M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 32.3% of its 43.3M-share float.
How many days to cover does FOUR have?
6.6 days: 14.0M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 2.1M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is FOUR short interest rising or falling?
FOUR short interest fell (-4.2%) from 14.6M to 14.0M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is FOUR a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores FOUR 61 out of 100 (elevated) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 40/40, days to cover 16.5/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 4.4/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of FOUR daily volume is sold short?
52.4% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 16th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was FOUR's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Shift4 Payments Inc (FOUR) was 289,422 shares, 29.3% of 988,224 total volume.
How many FOUR short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Shift4 Payments Inc (FOUR), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did FOUR short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Shift4 Payments Inc (FOUR) moved from 54.1% on Oct 30, 2026 to 29.3% on Nov 2, 2026, down 24.8 percentage points.
Not investment advice. Figures as filed or reported, not a live feed.